Yankee Cavalrymen Through the Civil War With the 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry

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Scholars interested in cavalry operations during the Civil War will consult Yankee Cavalrymen "cite it and learn from it " believes the eminent historian Stephen Ambrose. For local history buffs he says it will be a gold mine. Author John W. Rowell also applies in this book a special ability to evoke a mood - a real feeling for mid-nineteenth-century America - as he traces the route of the Ninth Pennsylvania Cavalry through eleven states. Using diaries and archival sources he expresses this feeling for Mr. Lincolns "plain people" with both precision and charm. In some four years of military duty the Yankee Cavalrymen who served with the Western armies may have seen the South in more detail and traveled more miles than any other group of soldiers in the Federal Army. They participated in major battles at Perryville Chickamauga and Bentonville and they engaged in almost continuous expeditions to scout raid and forage through broad areas of Kentucky Tennessee Alabama Georgia and the Carolinas. The reader of Yankee Cavalrymen thus gains an over-all view of the Middle War Theater.